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SUSE: Wireshark Update 2025:03294-1 Fixes Moderate Null Pointer Crash

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Calendar Grey September 22, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
Adoption of prudent security protocols regarding Wireshark to address CVE-2025-9817, guaranteeing reliability on SUSE Linux systems.
* bsc#1249090 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-9817

Summary

## This update for wireshark fixes the following issues: Update to version 4.2.13. Security issues fixed: * CVE-2025-9817: SSH dissector crash due to NULL pointer dereference when processing malformed packet traces (bsc#1249090). Other issues fixed: * Bug in UDS dissector with Service ReadDataByPeriodicIdentifier Response. * Incorrectly parsed `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` key following a name- value byte sequence with no `=`. * DNP3 time stamp not working after epoch time (year 2038). * Bug in LZ77 decoder; reads a 16-bit length when it should read a 32-bit length. * Further features, bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in: * https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.2.13.html ## Patch Instructions:

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SuSE null pointer crash wireshark

References

* bsc#1249090

Cross-

* CVE-2025-9817

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-9817 ( SUSE ): 6.7

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-9817 ( SUSE ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2025-9817 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP6

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP7

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03294-1
Release Date: 2025-09-22T14:11:03Z
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SuSE null pointer crash wireshark

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